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"I like chocolate too!"
Bianca, 6, Landau Kleffner syndrome (language disorder)
Bianca was
a student of mine in and I'd been struggling (and I'm sure she was
too) to get her to say more than one syllable at a time - you know
how it is - the harder they try, the less that comes out. She had
started to consistently string two to three one syllable words
together. November came and Food for Thought was ready to be tested
out with 'real students' and mine were lucky enough, I guess, to be
the guinea pigs.
Bianca was
keen to try it, as she liked the computer. She quickly grasped the
concept of using the 'choice bar' and made the sentence 'I like
chocolate' "Ahh, I like chocolate too!" she replied. It was so clear
(for her), I nearly fell off my chair and of course, I was very
proud. To top if off, she then made a joke of it all. Laughing all
the way, she proceeded to make sentences like 'I like broccoli' and
'I like sandwiches' - both of which are not true of course - and she
knew that I knew...! What a great day that was.
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